You have to create a specific master page for the chapter opening/first page that contains two connected text frames. The top most frame would have the blue background and be meant for the title. The next text frame would pick up the text and have two columns.

Cindy, I missed the fact that you're title is centred in the block. You could use a single-cell table construct to hold the contents for the title and have the title paratag set to be in the middle of the cell. (you could also colour the cell and skip colouring on the Master page).

There are always multiple ways to do things in FM, that's why it sometimes seem so hard to use...

I can't test this right now, but I remember that when extracting a TOC, table title paragraphs appear out of order when mixed with main-text-flow paragraphs, because of the way that FM keeps track of table information. I'm not sure if the problem also affects paragraphs in table cells.

Colors behind text is a frequent request. It's always a good idea to post a formal feature request here: Wishform. Eventually user requested features have been known to appear in future FM releases.

HTH

Regards,

Peter

_______________________

Peter Gold

KnowHow ProServices

Arnis Gubins wrote:

Cindy, I missed the fact that you're title is centred in the block. You could use a single-cell table construct to hold the contents for the title and have the title paratag set to be in the middle of the cell. (you could also colour the cell and skip colouring on the Master page).

There are always multiple ways to do things in FM, that's why it sometimes seem so hard to use...

What bugs me at present is that 'background colour' is a property (which the happy user can now set in the paragraph designer) that shows up as required on screen but does not survive Distiller. Illustrator text blocks can manage this apparently simple trick …

colours used: out-of-the-box FM colours, plus corporateBlue (CMYK 68, 40, 12, 20) – this is the colour that disappears when used as a background and distilled to .pdfPantone 3015.C arrives with the .eps logo and causes no trouble

Check your definition for the corporateBlue and list how exactly it is defined (Print As, Model & Overprint settings). Then also check your colour Views and Print settings (Separation Setup) to see if this colour is set to not print or be invisible anywhere.

The "unknown colourspace" in the PDF suggests that the colour definition is somehow messed up.